Lawrence Adjei

Lawrence Adjei

Personal information
Full name	Lawrence Adjei-Okyere
Date of birth	(1979-03-23) 23 March 1979 (age 45)
Place of birth	Accra, Ghana
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1997–2000	Obuasi Goldfields	68	(23)
2000–2001	Asante Kotoko	16	(10)
2001	FC Spartak Moscow	1	(0)
2002	Arminia Bielefeld	5	(1)
2002–2003	SV Eintracht Trier 05	15	(8)
2003–2007	Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club	29	(6)
2007	Hohhot Black Horse[1]	5	(0)
2008	Sporting Clube de Goa	21	(2)
2008–2010	Sporting Club de Bangui	26	(8)
International career
2001–2005	Ghana	7	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lawrence Adjei-Okyere (born 23 March 1979) is a Ghanaian former footballer[2] who played as a midfielder.

Career

Adjei started his footballing career at Obuasi Goldfields. He scored the only goal for Goldfields in the first leg of the 1997 CAF Champions League Final.[3]

He joined Russian team Spartak Moscow in the summer of 2001.[4] In January 2002, he moved to Arminia Bielefeld in Germany[5]

In 2005, he won the 2004 CAF Confederation Cup with Accra Hearts of Oak [6] He played in the 2005 CAF Super Cup but was sent off.[7]

He played in India from January to June 2008 with Sporting Clube de Goa and scored his first goal for them against East Bengal Club on 6 January 2008.[8] He then moved to Central African Republic team Sporting Club de Bangui.

References

1. Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "NFT player — National team & Club appearances: Adjei, Lawrence". national-football-teams.com. National Football Teams. Archived from the original on 27 January 2023. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
2. Lawrence Adjei at kicker (in German)
3. Joe Aggrey (December 2, 1997). Graphic Sports: Issue 654 December 2-8 1997. Graphic Communications Group. p. 6.
4. "European summer round-up". BBC Sport. July 23, 2001. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
5. "Top scorers/latest transfers". BBC Sport. January 3, 2002. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
6. "TODAY IN HISTORY: Hearts beat Kotoko to win Confederations Cup". Ghana Sports Online. January 9, 2015. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
7. "Enyimba (Ngr) - Hearts of Oak (Gha) 2-0 (0-0,0-0) (aet)". www.cafonline.com. Archived from the original on July 21, 2012.
8. "Adjei goal sinks East Bengal". The World Game. Special Broadcasting Service. January 6, 2008. Retrieved August 16, 2008.^[dead link‍]